Too Faced Smurfette Collection: Smurf You Starry-Eyed Liner

I'll admit, I have never seen a single episode of The Smurfs. I know absolutely nothing about The Smurfs, other than that they are blue and appear to spend a lot of time around giant mushrooms.

That being said, when I saw this Too Faced Smurfette Collection Starry-Eyed eyeliner on Sephora.com, Smurf-fan or not, I had to have it. The shade is called, "Smurf You." Is that supposed to be as naughty as it sounds?



Pretty metallic blue cap!


Quick, blurry swatch. It's a vibrant medium blue with a little bit of silvery blue glitter mixed in for contrast. Looks extremely hot over black eyeliner.

Too Faced Starry-Eyed glitter liners are my favorite glitter liners ever, and this color is a perfect addition to the line. I didn't get the other shade, but I probably will soon. Everything about this liner rocks, so the other one has to be good!

Another Eye Of The Day

I've been wearing a lot of glitter lately. There's just something about glitter that makes me feel.... sparkly? And I've found my favorite of all time, hands-down holy grail status glitter liner: Too Faced Starry Eyed Glitter Liner. I have tried them all, and the Too Faced liner beats them all. The glitter is dense, it doesn't crack like MAC glitter liner, you don't have to spend an hour layering it like you do with Urban Decay's glitter liner and the glitter colors in the Too Faced line are just really freakin' cool. Some even have a little HOLO glitter thrown in. HOLO, people, HOLO!!!

Anyway, here's a couple looks I did using the Too Faced Starry Eyed liner.





I can't remember everything I used, but I know that I used MAC Magenta Madness, Urban Decay Peace and Too Faced liner in Ooh & Aah.





This one was pretty similar, I used MAC Acid Orange and Electric Coral, Urban Decay Peace and Too Faced liner in Super Freak over MAC Blacktrack.

Hot pink holographic glitter eyeliner. It doesn't get much better than that.

I'm a makeup junkie, too...

I thought it would be fun to post a couple "Eye of the day" pictures to break up to monotony of having only nail pictures. What do you think?

I love makeup of all types. Playing with color is so much fun!




This is Ben Nye Aztec Gold, Tangerine and Azalea, MAC Goin' Bananas and Vanilla, Urban Decay Peace and Fishnet, and 24/7 liner in Electric. There might have been some other stuff, but I can't remember what.





This was a fun look- antique looking. MAC Nanogold, Off The Radar and Mega Rich, Urban Decay Peace, and liner in Honey.


Nice change of pace from posting nail polish all the time, right?

Swedish Days

Today my family and I went to Swedish Days- the Midsommar festival that happens every year where I live. There are a lot of Swedish immigrants and Americans of Swedish heritage where I live, so every year they have a festival where all the Swedish businesses and restaurants and groups set up booths with food and games. It's a lot of fun!

This year I was inspired to do "Swedish" themed makeup, inspired by Sanna of MakeupMyLack.
Mine's not as good as hers, but it was still fun to do in honor of all the wonderful Swedish bloggers I've met through this blog. You guys are great!



(Flash, because it made my eyeball look cool. LOL)

I used:
MAC Painterly Paint Pot
MAC Chrome Yellow
MAC Orange
MAC Crystal Avalanche
Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Radium
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Zero
Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara

How did I do?

Kat Von D for Sephora Autograph Liquid Eyeliner

I'll take a little break from babbling about nail polish to introduce you to my new favorite makeup item:

Kat Von D Autograph Eyeliner.

I've recently become fond of liquid liner, and I've pretty much worn it every day for the past 6 months. During that time I've tried tons of different brands- Urban Decay, Sephora Brand, Wet N Wild, MAC, et cetera. Out of all of those, I like Kat's the best.

I'll admit, the first two I bought just for the name- Black Metal Love (KVLT!!!) and Love Metal (seriously, I do.) The other two I had to get because I loved the first ones so much- Turbo Lover and Romantico.

The brush on these is pretty much perfect- long enough to draw a straight line without making a mess, stiff enough not to splay but soft enough not to skip, and holds plenty of liquid so you don't have to dip so much.

The packaging is great- the bottles (jars? what do you call that part?) are the exact color of the liner inside- actually, I'm thinking they're transparent because it's such an exact match. The handles of the brushes are nice and long with a rubberized feel to them and beautiful silver artwork.

They all dry very quickly, which is awesome for me because I hate waiting for my liner to dry before I can curl my lashes. The texture is smooth and even, no chunks, not runny and not too thick. Texture is an important factor in achieving a straight and flawless line. Too runny and it bleeds, to thick and it skips. These are just right. And once they're dry, they don't budge, smudge or flake.

Most importantly, all the colors have character. See below.


Black Metal Love, Love Metal, Turbo Lover, Romantico


Black Metal Love, Love Metal, Turbo Lover, Romantico


Romantico, Turbo Lover, Love Metal, Black Metal Love.
(As always, click the pictures to enlarge)

I apologize for the poor quality of the swatches. I just couldn't keep my hand still for anything! I really need to cut back on the coffee.

Romantico is a deep antique looking gold that dries looking pretty reflective. It has just a hint of sparkle in it, and it's incredibly beautiful when it catches the light.

Turbo Lover is a metallic plum burgundy shade. It doesn't look red on your eyes. It's also metallic and reflective when dry. It really brings out the color of my eyes, and I'm sure it would look awesome with all eye colors.

Love Metal is everything I wanted Urban Decay's Revolver liquid liner to be. It's shiny, sparkly, reflective pure metallic silver goodness. A strange sounding but beautiful way to wear it is with a light gold eyeshadow on the lid. Gold and silver together doesn't sound like it would work, but it looks so interesting and pretty! You could also do it in reverse with a silver eyeshadow and Romantico liner.

Last, but definitely not least, Black Metal Love. A pure, super-dark jet-black matte liner with super-tiny silver microglitter. I think the microglitter really makes it. It doesn't look glittery at all- it looks like dark black matte eyeliner. When the light hits it you see the silver microglitter and it's just so fascinating to look at. I don't know if I can go back to plain black liquid liner.... I like the glitter!

If you're into cat eyes, retro glamour or just love liquid liner, you might want to give these a try!

They're available exclusively at Sephora.

Kat Von D Ludwig Palette Look.

Really quick, I thought I'd try out the other palette. It's nice. Very nice.

I used the right side of the Ludwig palette (Leather, Baroque, Downtown, Clay, Tequila).




And a flash one, cause I thought it looked cool and sparkly.




You know, taking good pictures of your makeup is 5000 times harder than taking pictures of your nails. I still haven't mastered this makeup photo thing yet.

Kat Von D Beethoven palette look.

So, looks like I have to take back everything I said about these palettes being crappy. They are really nice. Sure, they could be more pigmented, but they're nice and smooth and the colors all work together.

I did a Kat-inspired blue semi-smoky eye with liquid liner because it seemed appropriate.

Just an eyeball shot. I used the left side of the Beethoven palette (Speed Blue, Raxor Gray, Tequila).